Trade licences expire on 31st December, immediately following the issue.\u00a0 They enjoy exemption from road fund licences and display.<\/p>\n
Records must be kept in relation to trade licences. \u00a0It is an offence to contravene regulations made in relation to trade licences.\u00a0 There are conditions and limitations on the use of trade licences.<\/p>\n
There are requirements for the display of the trade licence plate. The use other than by the trade licence holder or its employees in the course of their business and persons testing a vehicle in the context of a test drive is prohibited.<\/p>\n
They are broadly limited to testing, demonstration, delivery, rendering service to a broken down vehicle, proceeding from workshops, proceeding from premises of a motor trader to a place where the vehicle is to be exported or transported, proceeding to or returning from a garage, auction room or other place where a trailer is normally used or stored.<\/p>\n
An unregistered vehicle may be used in a public place in accordance with the terms of a trade licence.<\/p>\n\n
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Licensing \/ Motor Tax The annual licence (motor taxation) is administered by the local authorities.\u00a0 The licence (tax disc) must be exhibited on the vehicle in a conspicuous position.\u00a0 It must not be defaced. It is an offence to use a vehicle in a public place without the relevant excise duty paid.\u00a0 There are parallel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32155,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions\/32155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}